The municipality of La Vid y Barrios (262 inhabitants in 2014; 3,758
ha; municipal website) is located in the south of the Province of Burgos, on the border with
the Province of Segovia, 100 km Burgos. The municipality is made of the
villages of Guma (61 inh.), Linares de la Vid (105 inh.) and Zuzones
(115 inh.).

Linares de la Vid, aka La Vid, was established in the 1950s to
relocate the inhabitants of Linares del Arroyo (Segovia), a village
that was flooded in 1951 to build Lake Linares. The National Institute
of Colonization purchased the old estate of La Vid y Guma, once the
site of a village inhabited by 13 households, but deserted long ago.
The village of La Vid (60 houses) was first built to accommodate the
newcomers. Guma (42 houses) was subsequently established to
accommodate colonists coming from villages from the Provinces of Guadalajara, Cuenca, Segovia and Valladolid. Each household was granted a plot of arable land; in the 1960-1970s, the industrialization of Madrid and Barcelona caused massive emigration from the village.
Zuzones is the last Spanish municipal entity by alphabetic order.
Remains from the Roman period seem to indicate that the place was then
use as a cemetery for neighbouring bigger settlements.

The Augustinian monastery of Santa María de la Vid was established around a Romanesque church, erected in 1152-1159, of which nearly nothing has remained. The today's abbey church, designed in the 16th
century by Sebastián de Oria, Pedro de Rasines and Juan de Vallejo,
keeps masterpieces such as a wooden Virgin in Gothic style (13th
century) and an altarpiece by Antonio de Elejalde (16th century). The
monastery has two cloisters (16th century, restored in the 18th
century) and a library composed of more than 60,000 volumes, including
a Quran written on parchment (1134).

The flag and arms of La Vid y Barrios are prescribed by a Decree
adopted on 17 March 2011 by the Municipal Council, signed on 21 March
2011 by the Mayor, and published on 29 April 2011 in the official
gazette of the Province of Burgos, No. 82, p. 52 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular in proportions 2:3, blue with a yellow saltire,
whose arms are in height 15% of the flag's height. In the center is
placed the municipal coat of arms, in height 60% of the flag's height.Coat of arms: Per fess, 1. Azure (blue) four fleurs-de-lis or placed
1, 2 and 1 all over two staffs or in saltire, 2. Argent three
grapevines or in fess the base wavy azure and argent. The shield
surmounted by a Royal Spanish crown.

The upper quarter of the arms must represent the monastery of Santa
María de la Vid. The lower quarter makes the arms canting, vid meaning "a grapevine" in Spanish.

The flag and arms of Linares de La Vid, approved on 30 January 2004 by
the Village Council, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 7 May 2004
by the Village Council, signed the same day by the Mayor, and
published on 26 May 2004 in the official gazette of Castilla y León, No. 99, pp. 7,098-7,099 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:

Flag: Two horizontal stripes, green on top and red on bottom, at hoist a white triangle charged with the coat of arms.Coat of arms: It represents the words "Linares", "Vid" and "Arroyo",
as follows:
- "Linares" is represented by a flax plant [lino] and means a place
grown with flax;
- "Vid" ["a grapevine"] is represented by a bunch of grapes, recalling
that the area is a land of wine-growing par excellence;
- "Arroyo" ["a brook"] is represented by the course of water of a
river or brook.

Oddly enough, the Decree does not include the blazon of the coat of
arms, which is "Per pale, 1. Vert a flax plant or, 2. Gules a bunch of
grapes or. Grafted in base, fessy wavy argent and azure. The shield
surmounted by a Royal crown closed."